“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”
Albert Camus
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“In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.”
Albert Camus
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“I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: “Be wary”. On my business cards: “Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor”.”
Albert Camus
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“[Sympathy] is easy to get, and it is not binding. “You have my sympathy”, and inside we say, “and now let us move on to something else.”
Albert Camus
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“She knew that Marcel needed her and that she needed this need, that it kept her alive night and day; especially at night when he did not want to be alone, or to age or to die, with that stubborn look he had, and that she sometimes recognized on other men’s faces, the only look common to all the madmen hidden behind airs of reason, until the delirium rises and throws them, desperate, to a woman’s body to bury, without desire, the frightening things that solitude and night have shown them.”
Albert Camus
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“When she laughed, I wanted her again. A while later, she asked me if I loved her. I answered that it did not mean anything, but that it seemed to me that I did not. She seemed sad.”
Albert Camus
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“Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.”
Albert Camus
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“… unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.”
Albert Camus
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“She noted that marriage is a very serious thing. I answered that no, it is not…. She just wanted to know if I would have accepted the same proposal from another woman with whom I would have had a relationship like ours. I said, “Of course”.”
Albert Camus
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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.”
Albert Camus
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“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”
Albert Camus
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“I often wonder what future historians will say about us. One sentence will suffice to describe modern man: he fornicated and he read newspapers.”
Albert Camus
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“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
Albert Camus
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“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”
Albert Camus
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“How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!”
Albert Camus
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“But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.”
Albert Camus
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
Albert Camus
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Albert Camus
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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.”
Albert Camus
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Albert Camus
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
